=============================================== === Getting Selectricity ====================== =============================================== Selectricity is free software and is distributed under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3. You are free to use, modify, and distribute, or rework Selectricity under the terms of that license. Of course, we'd sure like it if you would send fixes back to us and tell us about cool stuff you do with our software! The best way to get Selectricity is just to download it from our source tree. At the moment, we're hosting our code at Gitorious which is a free software hosting provider. You can download Gitorious at the project page by following detailed instructions at Gitorious: http://gitorious.org/selectricity =============================================== === Getting Help and Contributing ============= =============================================== If you have a question, you can always email the core team at: team@selectricity.org If you want to get involved in development, want to discuss selectricity, or want to participate, please subscribe to our mailing list here: http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/selectricity In terms of bugs and documentation, we current plan to build this out in our Gitorious wiki so feel free to get started with your own efforts along these lines there: http://gitorious.org/selectricity/pages/Home =============================================== === Dependencies ============================== =============================================== To use Selectricity, you'll need to install the following gems in addition to Ruby on Rails (gem:rails), MySQL (gem:mysql), and its dependencies: * rmagick * gruff (http://nubyonrails.com/pages/gruff) * sparklines (http://nubyonrails.com/pages/sparklines) To use Selectricity in development mode, you'll need to install the following gems: * ruby-debug Also, you will need install the other applications installed first: * imagemagick (http://www.imagemagick.org/) On Ubuntu, you can install install the dependencies with: apt-get install imagemagick libmagick9-dev ruby1.8-dev libwmf-bin rdoc \ libopenssl-ruby1.8 libreadline-ruby1.8 libmysqlclient15-dev Our server configuration uses Mongrel (installed from gems) behind an Apache2 load balancing proxy using mod_proxy. You'll also need to have a MTA installed. We use Postfix and have not tried it with any other system. Presumably though, anything that provides '/usr/bin/sendmail' should work. =============================================== === Contributors to Selectricity Include ====== =============================================== * Benjamin Mako Hill * John Dong * Justin Sharps